{"id":22874,"date":"2023-02-06T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/?p=22874"},"modified":"2023-02-05T09:55:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T19:55:03","slug":"voices-and-views-megan-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kapionews.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/voices-and-views-megan-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices and Views: Megan Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>By Juri Dagio | Staff Writer<\/h5>\n<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"190741bf-9ccc-4f0b-8e2c-81bca905dbf3\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Megan Wilson is a 23-year-old student from Honolulu who is majoring in English with a concentration in Creative Writing at KCC. <span class=\"issue-underline underline text-gray-darkest font-body decoration-2 underline-offset-4 transition decoration-primary-main hover:bg-primary-lightest\" data-issueid=\"c4240a6a-5f37-4dc7-b318-e0936983fac3\" data-testid=\"issue-underline:Wilson, who is currently pursuing her bachelor's degree, has a broad view of\">Currently in pursuit of her bachelor&#8217;s degree, Wilson has a broad outlook of<\/span> her career after college. Having a passion for teaching, she aspires to become an English professor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love teaching,&#8221; Wilson said. &#8220;I love it when I see someone fully understand something in the way that they didn&#8217;t before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"dbf9c4df-ef7f-4354-92c5-4ad1a4909fc2\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Alongside her dream to become a professor, she also aspires to be a published author.<\/p>\n<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"dbf9c4df-ef7f-4354-92c5-4ad1a4909fc2\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Since the age of 14, Wilson has been writing her own novels. After receiving encouragement from one of her high school teachers, she participated in a short story writing contest and won first place. After this experience, Wilson found her strength to start <span class=\"issue-underline underline text-gray-darkest font-body decoration-2 underline-offset-4 transition decoration-primary-main hover:bg-primary-lightest\" data-issueid=\"b6f9a53d-19b8-48f6-b23a-558a540d3c97\" data-testid=\"issue-underline:writing.\">writing more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a very overactive imagination; I&#8217;m always thinking of something new, something creative,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Even if it&#8217;s just solutions to my problems, some of them are really outside of the box. So being able to put on my ideas and make it for someone else, in a story, it helps me think and it clears my head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"9dbfd480-a27e-4296-a986-25075e5addc8\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">According to Wilson, the people she meets <span class=\"issue-underline underline text-gray-darkest font-body decoration-2 underline-offset-4 transition decoration-error-main hover:bg-error-lightest\" data-issueid=\"a069c1cd-0847-4ff0-9d8b-bb9cf7dc6a89\" data-testid=\"issue-underline:provide inspiration\">provide the inspiration<\/span> for her novels. She incorporates all aspects of people she knows into her book characters. She typically writes fantasy-romance novels, the genre of her ongoing novel &#8220;The Soul of Creation.&#8221; The whole storyline revolves around gods of Greek mythologies and would focus on world building and character developments.<\/p>\n<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"53f5f8ce-df50-4a09-b987-a3a3aa2b4587\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Seeing as there are so few authors from Hawai&#8217;i, it is Wilson&#8217;s dream to have her novels acknowledged to put more attention to the Hawaiian Islands. She hopes that her novels would bring &#8220;some kind of give back&#8221; to the Hawaiian community.<\/p>\n<p data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"46389e23-7c1c-4703-9f60-f9bae35c87de\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">When she was a teenager, Wilson recalled that she developed a much more love for books when she underwent multiple operations due to a broken hip caused by karate. As she was unable to do many things, she turned to reading novels to relieve her <span class=\"issue-underline underline text-gray-darkest font-body decoration-2 underline-offset-4 transition decoration-primary-main hover:bg-primary-lightest\" data-issueid=\"13cabd3b-ec7f-4ae2-a702-2f6db92fd508\" data-testid=\"issue-underline:pain.\">developing pains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was going through a hard time. I read these books and [they] took me out of my world. &#8230; It made me feel safe and comforted,&#8221; Wilson said. &#8220;I want my books to do that for the next little girls and boys.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Juri Dagio | Staff Writer Megan Wilson is a 23-year-old student from Honolulu who is majoring in English with a concentration in Creative Writing at KCC. Currently in pursuit of her bachelor&#8217;s degree, Wilson has a broad outlook of her career after college. 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